Alumni Class of 2009
A posh, no, pretentious, word for the student body. Why dont we take photos of each year suggested Tim Lovett. Well here you all are Class of 2009........
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Less is more
We've just completed a pair of ebony bedside cabinets for one of my special clients. I was asked to make these pieces for the bedroom of a new London apartment that had just been renovated for my client.........
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Furniture Designers and material ignorance:
Lakshmi Bhaskaran is an experienced journalist writing in the field of design. When she sought to become one of my students I thought it would be an interesting experience.........
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When looking at Art, all you need are eyes to see:
It should be quite straightforward looking at Art, but itˇ¦s not. We should be able to just go in there and it should blow us over but it doesnˇ¦t. One of the problems that we face is the abject quality of so-called contemporary art.........
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Furniture makers do it in the snow:
Eight frozen furniture makers at Rowden Farm Workshops in Devon- the home of Furniture with Soul, take time out to make a ten foot high image of uncompromising masculinity at least until the following thaw.........
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A fine lot of boxes you got me into:
Have a look at these wonderful boxes made by our furniture making students........
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"Improver" furniture maker gets new job in top workshop:
Congratulations to James Mullins who has landed a rarely available position in one of Britains top furniture making craft workshops. Kaizen Furniture makers are not a well known name, they work from a small premises in London but they supply highest quality furniture to private clients all over the world........
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Famous artist seeks to kill himself slowly in public :
David Hockney a much loved British artist was this month guest editor on the BBC news programme Today. During the programme he railed magnificently about the petty restrictions and interferences to natural liberties that this.......
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Alan Peters R.I.P. :
Damn, Damn, Damn, I am getting fed up writing obituries on dead furniture makers. Why cant they just go on for ever. I knew Alan quite well. He was a role model and a mentor when I really needed one.......
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Stunning New Student Work :
Lakshmi Bhaskaran was already a successful design journalist when she joined the one year course here just over eight months ago. Her objective was to learn to do herself what she had been writing about for so long.......
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John Cederquist to visit Rowden :
Following on from his speaking engagement at the V and A, the Californian furniture designer maker John Cederquist will be spending a day at Rowden workshops on wednesday 23rd september.......
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Making The Future :
..........Another opportunity to see David Savages work and to meet him at the gallery on Friday 2nd October.
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Furniture Maker sets up Workshop in Spain :
I first met Antony Godden nearly two years ago. Antony was a builder with a business and home in Spain and a modest property portfolio built up through hard work.....
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Genuine Woodworking Course Apprenticeships are still alive :
There used to be a time when apprenticeships were a normal way of training young people in those complex skills that, after a period of 3 to 5 years, would earn them a living for life.....
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Art and Innovation:
Is innovation a signal of the presence of a genuine creative act or just something new? .........
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Furniture maker gets new job in top Workshop :
Congratulations to Jonathan Greenwood who has landed a rarely available position in one of Britains top furniture making craft workshops. Greame Scott Furniture are not a well known name, they work from a small backstreet workshop in Devon but they supply highest quality furniture to private clients all over the world.........
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